All that before they sold a ticket (they made $21 million from ticket sales last year). A couple of things stand out. First, the revenue sharing is even more than msot of us thought. That's the figure that H. Wayne Huizenga and John Henry didn't have in owning the Marlins. Second, local radio and TV is a decent number (Tampa Bay makes $13 million in local TV and radio) considering the fact attendance is awful.

3. Tampa Bay made a profit of $11 million in 2007 and $4 in 2008, as the Deadspin Documents show. The Rays also generated $17 million from the 2008 post-season.

4. The Angels made a profit of $7.08 million in 2007 and $10.7 million in 2008. They also paid $16.4 million in 2009 as part of baseball's revenue-sharing agreement and $14.7 million in 2008. Their net playoff revenue was $9.4 million in 2008 when they made the AL Championship and hosted five playoff games. They made $3.23 million in 2008 when hosting two playoff games.

5. The bottom-line: Every team is making money in sports. When the Pirates are making money, they all are. As they should. The reason for the outrage at the Marlins is they've cried poor for years while dumping off players like Miguel Cabrera.

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I wish reporters would put more effort into exposing these crooks, and the city commissioners that gave them 600 million dollars. We should have been able to vote on the issue and that was denied. While public schools and hospitals are cutting back these commissioners were handing out money to clowns. But I know they must have got a sweet kickback for it.

The Marlins organization has no commitment to excellence or to winning - they have a commitment to profit. They'll put the best guys they can find on the field as long as they are cheap. Theyve had the lowest payroll in baseball for years and then fire their manager when the team doesn't perform on an elite level. How many big time players and All Stars have come through the Marlins organization only to be shipped out before their big payday. The only reason Hanley is still around is because MLB required the Marlins to spend more money and they want him to be part of the "new" branding of the Miami Marlins. Marlins fans over the years have put their hearts into this team only to watch them get broken time and time again. And they wonder why the stadium is empty?

I pray everyday that Loria and Samson sell the team....SELL THE FREAKING TEAM !!! PLEASE!! and take the first bus out of town, both of you clowns. I will never have anything more to do with the Marlins, as long as they are involved with the team. as for the morons in county Gov that gave them money that could have been used to pay teachers better..........Your day will come. Carlos Alvarez your days as mayor are numbered.....enjoy it while you can...I'm sure we will see you in the first row of the new stadium...You're a clown!
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Where is the article that takes the lack of fan support for this team to task? Look Dave, I'm not a fan of the brass either, and yes, they absolutely should have invested in the product, and bolstered the weaker areas of the team, such as the bullpen and the bench, and they still would have made a tidy profit. But despite a rash of freak injuries, players being moved and not replaced, a suspension, the manager being fired, and embarrasing moments such as Hanley's jog into the left field corner, and having a perfect game thrown at you in your home park, the Marlins are still a game over .500. Whether it's in spite of, or because of the people running the show, there is a very competitive, fun to watch team on the field, night after night. I know the real money comes from revenue sharing and tv, but I think this pseudo-outrage would carry far greater weight if 30,000 people were showing up for every game. And as far as Cabrera goes, as good as he is, if it indeed came down to 100 million for him, or 100 million towards a new stadium, which will allow for long term stability, to me, that's an easy decision. A decision made even easier now that the Marlins got Cabrera back in a round about way, not my getting Cameron Maybin, but by stealing Mike Stanton in the second round of the draft.

Great article Dave. Just a few thoughts....What management (Loria, Samson and Beinfest) has done is a shame. MLB should step in, but "Bud" light must be related to Loria & Co and nothing will happen. I really wish they would sell the team to a real baseball person and run this team like it should, but that probably won't happen until after he moves the team to Miami. What a shame ...Cody, Caberra, no pitching relievers, Willingham, Cantu and who's is next.........UGGLA. Don't be surprised, because Loria and his lap dog will want the money in his own pocket. Let's go Heat and Dolphins...real sports team and fabulous owners and management team!

What is interesting is that the Marlins now own their own radio rights Dave...and I heard the revenue there was less than $1 million so the TV rights are 15+ million dollars??? Can FSN recoup that kind of money - this part of the whole thing doesn't make logical sense

Mayor Manny Diaz was a Elian Gonzalez created crook and he is still the biggest of the biggest crooks, only the Loria clan is a bigger swindling bunch. And Mayor Alvarez is a donkey, was a donkey and is now a full fledge burro of the worst kind. What a shame that this city has this array of politicians that vaseline their orifices to be hammered and jammed by the carpetbagging landlords mafia from Palm Beach County that come to be reigning and swindling landlords in a city that can not pay its teachers and public service people

As another poster said, wonder what people would be saying if the swindling mafia that owns the Marlins were a bunch of Muslims instead of what they are. Would they be allowed to do this? This is awful stuff in the same grade of swindle with the Madoff scheme. The city of Miami will be paying for this stadium for the next 100 years with high interest bonds that if they were in other countries ... heads would roll for grand theft.

DAVE SAMSON IS THE MOST DESPICABLE FORM OF HUMANOID FROM THE DEEP AND WE ARE CONDEMNED TO HEAR HIS GERBIL Quack DUCK VOICE ON THE RADIO... He played Dan Lebatard like a fiddle... so much for the investigative reporter for the Miami Herald that LeBatard thinks he is ... a clown that is what LeBatard is and an accessory to this larceny and grand theft.

Aaron Rodgers high in the draft a few years ago but passed for I-can't-remember-who (can you, Dave?) and he dropped to the end of the first round? I remember thinking, "Watch this guy become an All-Pro

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DAVE HYDE finished second in 2009 in voting for the nation’s top sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors. It was the third time in four years he has finished second in the country in APSE voting for either column or sports feature writing. He has placed 13 times in the Top 10 of APSE writing categories in his career, including a first for investigative work. His writing has been featured in the “Best American Sports Writing” anthology and he has authored “Still Perfect: The Untold Story of the 1972 Miami Dolphins” and "1968: The Year That Saved Ohio State Football.” He worked for Miami Herald before coming to the Sun Sentinel in 1990.